This jar is a classic example of Florentine maiolica of the first half of the fifteenth century.

This marble torso is an outstandingly well-preserved representation of an athletic male body in its prime.

This pharmacy jar was commissioned for the Santa Maria Nuova hospital in Florentine around 1430 and was produced by the workshop of Giunta di Tugio.

From a Palazzo in Venice to a castle in England, these armchairs had indeed lived a life before their arrival in Melbourne.

Although the Bible is the key text for the Christian religion, it is not the only source of inspiration for artists creating Christian imagery: the Golden Legend, by the thirteenth-century…

The story of these black-and-white photographs is carefully bound in a single manila folder that landed on my desk at the NGV on a Tuesday afternoon.

Giovanni Ponti, known as Gio Ponti, was one of the most influential Italian designers of the twentieth century.

Nicolas Poussin was a French artist who trained for a short period in Paris but felt drawn to Italian art more than the art of his own country.

Saint Filippo Neri (1515–95) was a Florentine-born clergyman who worked as a lay preacher ministering to the poor and underprivileged long before he took holy orders in 155

The early nineteenth century witnessed a revival of the seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish tradition of trompe l’oeil paintings, exemplified in France by Louis-Léopold Boilly and in Italy by the lesser-known…

As his name suggests, Claude Gellé Le Lorrain was born in the duchy of Lorraine in France, however he spent nearly his entire career in Italy

Giovanni Antonio Canal, known as Canaletto, is best known for his detailed paintings of Venice.

In 1994, a rare watermark album assembled in the first half of the nineteenth century by Canon Ludwig von Büllingen (1771–1848), entered the collection of the N

Many viewers of the 2004 Hollywood blockbuster Troy were disappointed to see its erasure of one of the great love stories to come down to us from antiq­uity

Annie Louisa Swynnerton (née Robinson 1844–1933) studied at the Manchester School of Art before travelling abroad to Paris in 1877, where she studied at the Académie Jul